Internet porn-blocking software neednt block health information, study finds
...advertently allow pornography-blocking software to cripple the Internet as a tool for improving health." In addition to Richardson, Resnick and Rideout, the study's authors include Holly Derry, MPH, of the Health Media Research Laboratory, and Derek Hansen, Ph.D., a student at the U-M School of Information. ...Promising West Nile virus vaccine protects monkeys
...cines in 1991. They found that this approach could cripple the disease-causing virus but still trigger a strong immune response against it. To ensure the safety of the chimeric virus in humans, the scientists further weakened the West Nile/dengue 4 virus by deleting some of the genetic material, RNA in this ...University of Illinois at Chicago receives $15.7 million grant to stop anthrax
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...sponses that neutralize the virus; the other is to cripple viral gene products that maintain cells as tumors. "If you can find viral gene products that contribute not just to creating the tumor but also to maintaining it, you can conceivably destroy those gene products--and kill the tumor--without harming o...Anthrax toxin inhibitor identified
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...and earlier research had shown that mutations that cripple it occur in about a third of patients with familial PD, but rarely show up in the much more common sporadic cases of the disorder. In the absence of these mutations, however, scientists weren't sure how, or even whether, malfunction of parkin was inv...Cognitive behavioral therapy combined with antidepressant effective in treating adolescent OCD
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